[Bug 5807] User Agent display of title attribute content not defined

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5807


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2008-07-03 16:15:34 ---
> I haven't proposed that "a bazillion links to UAAG" be added. I have proposed
> that one link be added to point vendors to requirements for providing access to
> conditional content, that has never been exposed to non mouse users in a usable
> way.

Sure, but it's an obvious slippery slope. The same could be said of many parts
of the language, and the obvious thing to do is to add more and more links
across the spec.

It isn't clear to me that any links to UAAG are going to make the slightest
difference anyway.


> > Surely how
> > accessibility they are is something browser vendors will naturally compete
> > over?
> 
> obviuosly not. 

I don't see why not. It certainly has been happening over other areas, e.g.
ARIA support went from basically nothing to near-complete implementations in
all four major browsers in less than a year. That's better adoption than almost
any part of HTML5.


> Suggested text addition:
> UA requirements for showing the title attribute content: UAs must expose the
> title attribute content(conditional content [1]) via a device independent
> mechanism.

A "must" is clearly not an option, given that there's no way (e.g.) a Times
Square browser (a huge display with a UI that basically consists of tracking
everyone's movements to decide where next to go) would be able to have the
ability to show title attributes.

Nor do I see that it is really a "device independent" mechanism that we really
need here; it's more that you want every device/media combination to be able to
show the data. But that's just good practice for anything, I don't see how it
is specific to the title attribute.


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